Microphones - Shotgun

SCHOEPS CMIT 5U

Shotgun microphone.

The CMIT 5U is Schoeps’ first foray into shotgun microphones, and offers unusually low colouration of off-axis sound. At medium frequencies the directivity of the CMIT 5U is higher than one would expect from a microphone of this length (251mm), while at high frequencies the pickup pattern is not as narrow as with long shotgun microphones. Thus, in active scenes it’s easier to cue the boom and keep actors ‘on mike’. Three switchable filters are provided: high-frequency emphasis (+5dB at 10kHz) enhances speech intelligibility, and compensates for high-frequency loss caused by windscreens; a steep low-cut filter (18dB/oct. below 80 Hz) suppresses wind and boom noise; and a gentle low-frequency rolloff (6dB/oct. below 300Hz) compensates for proximity effect.